“I hoping that she holds it in the road and doesn’t do so many things that are that bizarre,” says Parton, who became Miley’s godmother in 1992, thanks to her friendship with the young star’s dad, Billy Ray.

“I don’t think the crowd would be so forgiving again if she did anything else that was really offensive,” the 68-year-old country music legend said of her twerking, body-baring, admitted drug-enjoying, 21-year-old goddaughter.

“I don’t want it to overshadow her talent,” Dolly said, revealing her concerns in an exclusive interview with London’s The Sun newspaper.

It was Dolly that Miley turned to when the decided she needed to escape her Disney past, the interview reveals.

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“One day, she’d had enough and told me: ‘I need to murder Hannah Montana in order for people to accept who I really am,” Dolly told the newspaper.

That’s just what Miley did — murder by wrecking ball, and while buck naked.

“I think she felt she had to make that severe a change. And she obviously did,” Dolly said.

“I was very worried. I was holding my breath, hoping that people didn’t totally crucify her,” Dolly said.

“It would have scared me to death to do it, even though I’ve always been a brave person myself,” she said. “But she felt she had to make a place for herself in this pop world.”

Dolly gives her goddaughter credit for making the leap — but says she’s concerned about female pop stars, Miley included, who take it all off in raunchy videos.

“It’s kind of frightening. I know every generation has their own thing. But, of course, I’m an old timer — I don’t want them to get so far gone that it’s all about sex and violence.”

Miley will be fine… eventually, Dolly concedes. “If she is as smart as I think she is, I think she’ll make the right decisions.”